Thursday, January 23, 2014

André's abilities have always marked him as special, but
fulfilling an ancient prophecy is enough to have him ostracized into the
cosmos. Love was his motivation for preventing his parent's execution, now in
Earth's refuge, love is his undoing again.

The Commander's daughter is off limits, but this kind of love
is destiny, forcing Katrina and her alien paramour to elope.

Word of André's survival reaches his home planet when his
image is broadcast across the universe. This time, his very existence may well
trigger the destruction of a planet, his haven, Earth.

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Remember when I said I was re-branding Dome Warriors? Well Messiah is the result. This will be available everywhere as of February 1, 2014!

If you miss that superhero chemistry between Clark Kent and Lana Lang in the show Smallville, you will LOVE Messiah.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

I've taken a look at my backlist lately and decided some of my books needed facelifts. In most cases, this meant seeking outside help in the form of a copy editor or cover artist. In other cases, I learned to do some fun things with Gimp (a free photoshop program).

While I can't highlight the copy editing updates the way I can with covers, I can let you know that Dark Reckoning, Georgia Reign, Crystal Illusions and Saving Face have already been cleaned up. All my more recent books (The Night Hawk series and The Death Chronicles) have already undergone a thorough copy edit, so those should be clear of most grammatical issues. I have come to the conclusion that I am sorely comma deficient, but the wonderful ladies that I procure, are a wiz at cleaning up my prose.

The latest re-branding is the complete overhaul of Dome Warriors, including new title, new cover and new blurb - which I will be revealing soon, but in the meantime, I'll share a couple significant cover updates that I've rolled out in the last couple weeks...

Friday, January 10, 2014

In later 2012, Jason Halstead (that's me) wrote and
published a fantasy book called Child
of Fate. Since I am Jason Halstead, I'll stop talking about myself in third
person – it's creepy. Child of Fate came out of nowhere for me and was honestly
little more than an experiment at first. An experiment I hoped would do well
because I had a lot of ideas of where to go with it.

By March I was selling hundreds of copies in a month. Yes,
hundreds. It was amazing. I quickly wrote book 2, Victim
of Fate, and then followed it up with Silver
Dragon to cap off the Blades
of Leander trilogy. People wanted more though, so I began a second series
called the Order
of the Dragon and it grew to four books (all available now).

What's it about? A group of young adults, kids still by
modern standards, that are forced to grow up fast by their environments.
Marauding monsters, international plots and intrigue, and behind it all a
menacing threat with an agenda that goes far beyond the dreams of farm boys and
princesses.

Child of Fate is still flying off the virtual shelves these
days, but what has me really excited is that after almost a year of working on
it, the audiobook version is complete and available!

Now I've done audiobooks before. In fact I think I have five
others out and more that are being worked on presently. Child of Fate isn't
like any of those. It's not that it has some special sentimental place in my
heart or anything, it's just a game changing book. I have to credit the
narrator for that, Sean Wybrant. Sean did things with his voice for each
character that made me laugh or gasp in amazement. Then when that wasn't enough
(there are some talking fantasy monsters involved), he turned on the special
effects and made them even more amazing. He blew me away, and his performance
forced me to offer him the second book in the series.

So if you're in the mood to listen to an epic fantasy story
told with such variety and skill that you can close your eyes and feel like
you're there, please check it out. Just don't try that if you're listening to
it while driving (the closing your eyes bit). I promise you won't be
disappointed!